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The Alabama–Coushatta Tribe of Texas is headquartered in Livingston, Texas. They operate as a tribal council, with a Principal Chief and Chief serving as advisors to an elected tribal council comprising a chair, vice-chair, and five additional members. [2] The tribe's constitution and by-laws were adopted on June 16, 1971. [15]
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Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas reservation. Texas has three federally recognized tribes. [1] They have met the seven criteria of an American Indian tribe: being an American Indian entity since at least 1900; a predominant part of the group forms a distinct community and has done so throughout history into the present
The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas achieved federal recognition in 1987. The nation acquired a 4,600-acre (19 km 2 ) reservation near Livingston, Texas , its homeland since settling in this area in the early 19th century.
Facing increasing encroachment by European-American settlers, some of the Quassarte and Alabama peoples moved into Louisiana and Texas in the late 18th century and early 19th century. These emigrants and their descendants formed what are today the federally recognized Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana and the Alabama–Coushatta Tribe of Texas. [4]
States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1] For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities.
More than 100 years after Tonkawa people were forced out of Texas, the tribe is returning as a land owner
Discusses the state recognition process, the experiences of several state-recognized tribes (the United Houma Nation of Louisiana, and the Tigua/Pueblo of Ysleta Del Sur and Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas- the latter two are federally recognized), and the problems of non-federally acknowledged indigenous communities. Bates, Denise.